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Astra Zeneca

Its amazing that it has only just been realised that not all Astra Zeneca vacinations are accepted by all EU countries. This morning passengers for Malta were turned away because their Astra Zeneca vacinations were from batches, 4120Z001, 4120Z002, and 4120Z003. These batches weren't approved by the EMA as they were from India. They were approved by the MHRA. It's amazing our ministers did not know this as with Brexit we left the EMA, which was based in London and relocated to Holland. The EMA did not approve Indian produced Astra Zeneca as it was not submitted for approval.

Nicholas Beard ● 1488d11 Comments

It appears the UK has the - Highest number of deaths in Western Europe (128k)- Highest number of active cases in Europe, 2nd highest in the world, that award goes to america which has 4-5times the population- France wins the award of total cases though (5.9M vs 5.5M)..yeah vaccines eh? My fear is we'll soon have the "BoJo vaccine resistant" strain appearing soonExcellent vaccine roll out, yes - superb but you should always be looking at the bigger picture Data sourced from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Angelo R Santagata ● 1480d

Looks like it is the total of 154,099. As of 2 July.https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

Alex Shpinkov ● 1485d

Countries count deaths differently.  How many in the UK died with COVID not of COVID?

Reg Ghosh ● 1485d

There's seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the number of Covid-19 deaths in the UK. Yes, we have a very high number of deaths, but then we have a large population (3rd in Europe, slightly behind France). Of 25 European countries with a population over two million (i.e. with a statistically relevant population and reliable reporting mechanism) we currently lie 10th in the number of deaths per 100,000 behind, inter alia: Belgium, Italy and most of eastern Europe.In terms of infection we lie 13th behind, inter alia: Belgium, Italy, France, Switzerland and Spain.In short, despite the recent surge in cases here we are around average for the whole of Europe and better than some countries who are only too quick to castigate the UK. All statistics are courtesy of the World Health Organisation collated by John Hopkins University.

John Bradley ● 1485d

Have you been in a deep sleep for the last few months since the UK started vaccinations Nicholas or do just enjoy attacking the UK at every opportunity?Yes we have a horrendous record on covid deaths but thankfully these have dropped dramatically sine the vaccine roll out and we are streets ahead of most Nations in the World in doing so

Paul Fisher ● 1486d

I suppose that is why we have the most deaths, because we have vacinated more people?

Nicholas Beard ● 1486d

That’s just President Macron doing his usual anything against the UK. He’s so embarrassed by the pathetic rollout program in France he is trying to dis our success!

Reg Ghosh ● 1486d

France has said Astra Zeneca from these Zeneca batches will not be recognised although some of these batches were supplied under the Covax programme which they subsidised.

Nicholas Beard ● 1488d

Are they banning travellers from the UK then or are you just hoping so?

Paul Fisher ● 1488d

What about France Italy Croatia and others?

Nicholas Beard ● 1488d

Malta have admitted a mistake and are allowing all visiters to enter regardless of what Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been taken

Paul Fisher ● 1488d